The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) and Wheelchair Rugby Canada (WRC) have selected 12 players to its wheelchair rugby team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, with three members of the squad set to make their debuts.
A new worldwide foundation, Para Football, has been formed to bring together the International Federations (IFs) governing the formats of football for persons with disabilities.
Australia’s team of four for the wheelchair tennis at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics has been announced, including two reigning Paralympic champions in Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson.
Grant Manzoney, Caitlin Dransfield and Wayne Phipps have all been selected to make Paralympic debuts for Australia at Tokyo 2020.
Poland claimed gold in the men's standing final at the Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open in Ljubljana, winning 21-17, 21-9 against Italy.
The Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed) has announced three webinars aimed at improving the standard of coaching in the sport.
Final line-ups have been set at the Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open in capital Ljubljana.
The National Paralympic Committee of Indonesia have set a medal target of one gold for Tokyo 2020 with great expectations placed on the shoulders of their badminton team.
It was a good first day for Slovakia and Poland in the men’s standing competition and Latvia in the men’s sitting competition as the Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open began in Ljubljana.
American sitting volleyball player Lora Webster has announced that she will compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics while pregnant with her fourth child.
The three-day Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open begins tomorrow (July 27), with men’s and women’s sitting and men’s standing competitions being held.
Paralympics Australia has confirmed its biggest archery team since Sydney 2000 for the upcoming Paralympic Games.
Devendra Jhajharia wants to strike gold for a third time in the men's F46 javelin at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics - and is in fine form following his recent improvement on his own world record at the national selection trials for the Games.
Former Paralympic swimmer Roy Perkins has criticised deaf-blind athlete Rebecca Meyers after she pulled out of Tokyo 2020 over not being able to have her choice of carer come to the Games, calling Meyers' claims "nonsense".
London 2012 silver medallists France are set to return to the Paralympics at Tokyo 2020 in blind football after missing Rio 2016 - and are targeting a place on the podium as they did nine years ago.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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